> Grant sez :> > >If we don't find ways to divide up a uiverse so large as that of memes> >how will we be able to study it? I doubt that we can teach memetics> >effectively with koans.> >I'm working on it in my mind, but I haven't been able to grasp it yet.> >It's too big a subject to swallow in one gulp.> >(Mixed metaphors are more serendipitous.)> > Well there should be common points with any replicators.> The study of other replicators have already been categorized,> maybe this can help as a framework of sorts.> > It's not like we'd be working up from scratch, would it ?>
We do have some good shoulders to stand on with the physical and
biologic sciences. I've been reading E.O. Wilson's "Sociobiology"
and his essay "On Human Nature." He seems to have a good grasp of
how to divide his part of the physical world. The world of virtual
reality that we carry around in our heads seems a bit more slippery
and hard to pin down.